Congress has made the Paycheck Protection Program more flexible and given priority to the smallest, hardest-hit businesses, but the long-awaited second round of loans will still serve as little more than a stopgap as the pandemic rages on. Retail businesses like Georgie Lou’s Retro Candy store in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, will likely receive the same amount
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TVs seem to get bigger, slimmer and more connected each year. But now, in 2021, you can also see right through them. In a video shown during the all-digital CES 2021 consumer tech conference on Monday, LG unveiled a transparent TV with a screen you can see through when on or off. The clip shows
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(CNN) — El fatídico momento en que la Cámara de Representantes vote el miércoles a favor de llevar a juicio político al presidente Donald Trump por segunda vez se ubicará entre los momentos decisivos de la historia de Estados Unidos mucho después de que los ciudadanos que sufren estos días trágicos y desgarradores hayan desaparecido.
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Users have flocked to encrypted messaging app Signal by the millions in recent days — bringing it to the No. 1 spot on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store’s top free apps lists this week. Signal had about 7.5 million installations globally from the App Store and Google Play between Thursday and Sunday,
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Amazon Web Services filed its response to Parler’s lawsuit on Tuesday, blaming the social media platform favored by the far-right for filing a “meritless claim” against the cloud computing giant and citing a liability shield often maligned by President Donald Trump: Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934. AWS’s legal brief argues that it
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department reported six new coronavirus-related deaths and 564 new cases Wednesday morning. All six of those victims had underlying health conditions and include: 1 man in his 40s1 man in his 50s1 woman in her 60s1 man in his 60s1 man in his 70s1 woman in
Continue Reading EE.UU. exigirá prueba negativa de covid-19 a pasajeros internacionales. Los planes de extremistas para la toma de posesión de Biden. Conoce los productos pandémicos presentes en el CES 2021. Esto es lo que debes saber para comenzar el día. Primero la verdad. 1 Hoy la Cámara vota sobre el segundo juicio político a Trump Este
Continue Reading (CNN) — Ofrecen en la Florida una recompensa por información que ayude a encontrar y procesar a quien escribió la palabra «Trump» en el lomo de un manatí. El animal fue descubierto el domingo en el río Homosassa de la Florida con el nombre del presidente de EE.UU. escrito con letras mayúsculas en el lomo,
Continue Reading Cork, Irlanda (CNN) — Cuando Irlanda salió de un estricto confinamiento de seis semanas en diciembre, tenía uno de los niveles más bajos de casos de covid-19 en Europa. Desde entonces, la situación se ha desmoronado dramáticamente. El país registró la semana pasada la tasa de infección más alta del mundo, según Our World in
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The world’s largest carmakers are facing a critical shortage of semiconductors that threatens to hamstring production just as the industry tries to stage a comeback from a sales slump caused by the pandemic. Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat Chrysler and Nissan are among major automakers suffering from the global shortage of chips, which are used in a
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When Ireland came out of a strict six-week lockdown in December it had one of the lowest levels of Covid-19 cases in Europe. Since then, the situation has dramatically unraveled. The country recorded the highest infection rate in the world last week, according to Our World in Data, an online scientific publication based at the
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Nearly a year of ever-changing public safety guidelines with long days cooped up at home are wearing on many people. People have been social distancing, wearing masks and skipping gatherings with friends and family in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The pandemic, however, didn’t stop many from traveling for the holidays despite
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A reward is being offered for information that helps authorities find and prosecute whomever wrote “Trump” on a manatee’s back. The manatee was discovered Sunday in Florida’s Homosassa River with the President’s name in capital letters on its back, according to a news release from the Center for Biological Diversity. It’s not clear what was
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los líderes militares más importantes de Estados Unidos condenaron la violenta invasión del Capitolio la semana pasada y recordaron a los miembros del ejército su obligación de apoyar y defender la Constitución y rechazar el extremismo. Así lo hicieron en una declaración que subraya los desafíos sin precedentes que enfrenta el país después
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan is expanding a coronavirus state of emergency to seven more prefectures, affecting more than half the population as infections spread across the country. Prime Minister Yoshide Suga also said Japan will suspend fast-track business entry permits, fully banning foreign visitors while the state of emergency is in place. Suga’s announcement comes
Continue Reading (CNN) — Estados Unidos informó el martes su mayor número diario de muertes por covid-19, con más de 4,320 muertes atribuidas al virus. Fue la segunda vez, tanto este mes como desde el inicio de la pandemia, que EE.UU. informó más de 4.000 muertes por covid-19 en un solo día. Durante la semana pasada, EE.UU.
Continue Reading (CNN) — Científicos han identificado una «mutación escapista» que puede disminuir la eficacia de las vacunas contra el covid-19. La mutación, llamada E484K, se ha encontrado en una variante del coronavirus que se detectó por primera vez en Sudáfrica hace dos meses. Esa variante ahora se ha extendido a otros 12 países. Japón reporta que
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The House of Representatives voted Tuesday night to approve a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office through the 25th Amendment in the wake of the violent siege of the US Capitol last week. The vote amounts to a symbolic rebuke after Vice President Mike Pence made clear earlier in the
Continue Reading (CNN) — La Cámara de Representantes votó el martes por la noche a favor de aprobar una resolución en la que se pide que el presidente Donald Trump sea destituido de su cargo mediante la 25a Enmienda a raíz del violento asedio del Capitolio de Estados Unidos la semana pasada. La votación equivale a una
Continue Reading (CNN) — YouTube suspenderá el canal del presidente de EE.UU., Donald Trump, durante al menos una semana, y posiblemente más tiempo, después de que el canal recibiera una advertencia bajo las políticas de la plataforma, dijo la compañía el martes por la noche. Un video reciente en el canal de Trump había incitado a la
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The US reported its highest daily number of Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday with more than 4,320 fatalities attributed to the virus. It marked the second time — both this month and since the pandemic’s start — that the US reported more than 4,000 Covid-19 deaths in a single day. Over the past week, the US
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The US set a record Tuesday for the most Covid-19 deaths reported in one day since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday evening, 4,197 deaths were reported, according to JHU. This is not the complete total for Tuesday, though, because final numbers come in overnight. The
Continue Reading The man who was photographed hanging off the Senate balcony and then sitting in the Vice President’s chair during the riots at the US Capitol has been identified and is in custody, according to officials. In a sworn affidavit, an FBI agent says a relative of Josiah Colt confirmed that Colt is the person seen
Continue Reading Lisa Montgomery, 52, was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana, and pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday. Montgomery was the first woman to be executed by the federal government since 1953 and was the only woman on death row. The Supreme Court denied a last-ditch effort late Tuesday
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Federal investigators are chasing thousands of leads in twin efforts to prosecute people involved in last week’s attack on the US Capitol and to try to prevent feared follow-up attacks in Washington and around the country. But while the FBI has opened more than 160 case files in the six days since pro-Donald Trump rioters
Continue Reading (CNN) — Los viajeros aéreos a EE.UU. tendrán que mostrar una prueba de coronavirus negativa antes de poder abordar un vuelo, dijeron el martes los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC por sus siglas en inglés). La nueva orden entra en vigor el 26 de enero. Los CDC expresaron
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TERRE HAUTE, Indiana (AP) — The U.S. government has carried out its first execution of a female inmate in nearly seven decades. Authorities executed a Kansas woman who strangled an expectant mother in Missouri and cut the baby from her womb. Lisa Montgomery was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. Wednesday after receiving a lethal injection
Continue Reading (CNN) –– La tercera película de Deadpool es una realidad, y será parte del Universo Cinematográfico de Marvel. En una entrevista con Collider, el presidente de Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, reveló que Ryan Reynolds ––la estrella de las películas de superhéroes con clasificación R–– está trabajando actualmente en un guión. LEE: Brie Larson revela algunos
Continue Reading A Florida firefighter was arrested for unlawful entry of a restricted building and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to court documents, after a photo surfaced of him wearing a Trump 2020 hat and pointing at a placard for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi inside the US Capitol. Andrew Williams, a firefighter-paramedic with the
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. The news media (once again) finds itself covering a moment unlike any other in history. President Trump is set to become the first president in US history to have been impeached twice — this time
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